Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01

presses, with gnarled, twisted trunks, bent
into all sorts of impossible shapes, making,
altogether, the most weird and striking pic
ture, and compromising in their dense
shadows for the glowing beauty OF sea and
sky beyond They are, l believe, unique
to this locality, and remind me constantly
of the weird cedars of the Roman Cam
pagna, which Inness is so fond of intro
ducing in his Italian pictures"
WRITER
In the New York Tribune once said of the
climate of Monterey The same balmy
zephyrs breathe delicious atmosphere all
the year round and summer and winter,
so-called, serenely face each other and ex-
change compliments. The west wind
moist with the spray of Pacific pillows
and laden with suggestion OF spices IN the
far Cathay, comes in every evening with
ozone and healing on its wings"
General Sherman said of Monterey and
Del Monte: +" consider it the most de-
lightful place l have ever visited" Such
citations as these might be continued end
lessly, but enough has been said to show
that
CENTRAL AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IN
WINTER,
So far from being cold, chilly, disagreeable
and the contrast of southern California, is
at once its peer and its superior, and for
winter resorts, offers a wider field from
which to choose, greater variety more
healthful atmospheres and a climate
than which the refugee from the rigors of
the Eastern winter could not possibly con-
ceive of a better. Major Ben c. Truman,
in his admirable work on Homes in Cal
ifornia,' thus speaks of the climate of
Central California The climates of
Central California may be grouped into
coast climate, climate of the interior valley,
climate of the Sierra slope. The first
has a small range of temperature,
slight fogs and sea breezes.
The second has greater summer
temperature than on the coast, dry north
erly wind at times and no fog, On the
Sierra slopes, also northwaid in the Coast
Range, the climate as we ascend approaches
more and more to that of New England
until we reach the snow line. In many
counties thirty miles travel takes one from
where oranges grow to where only hardy
fruit trees prosper. The general features of
these three climates of which we haye
spoken mingle or are interchanged, accord
ing as the valleys oper toward the sea or
away from it, or slope northward or south.
The minimum temperature generally of
Ohio in January is 100 below zero, or 400
below the freezing point, or, as we say, 42o
of frost-whereas most of the valleys of
California do not have more than 90 of
frost, and many of them none at all. The
mean temperature of Ohio in January is 30
Fahrenheit, indicating that the average
day in that month has Ito of frost, whereas
the average January day of large portion
of California is at least 22o warmer than in
Ohio At Aupr1sta GEORGIA in latitude 33o
as we learn from Blodgett's Climatology.'
the thermometer has fallen to 10 below
zero. or 200 below the greatest cold observed
in this State, at Marysville in latitude 800"
REASONS GIVEN.
DIR. John W. Robertson, in the report of
the State Board of Health for 1856, takes
occasion to say
While the climate of California is mainly
due to its situation, midway the temperate
zone, the remarkable uniformity of temper
AZURE is due to local causes. The great law
that, in the northern hemisphere, all west
ern coasts are warmer than the eastern, is